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  • World Aids Day: Winning Against HIV Stigma Behind Bars in Kenya

    Posted: November 30, 2008, 2:55 pm by Phil
    Photo: Eric Kanalstein/UNMIL A new support group has empowered HIV-positive prisoners (file photo) NAIROBI, - HIV-positive prisoners in Kenya not only suffer isolation from friends and family, but also within the prison walls. “Fellow prisoners and warders treat us so uncaringly - they stigmatise us,” said Collins Kiwinda*, a prisoner serving time for robbery with violence [...]

  • OneWorld’s People of 2008 Finalist: Pamela Adoyo

    Posted: November 30, 2008, 2:55 pm by Phil
    This is a World AIDS day post. WASHINGTON,  (OneWorld) - Pamela Adoyo stands calmly and resolutely at the epicenter of Kenya’s AIDS epidemic. Her women’s group is helping care for the sick, impede the disease’s spread, and stitch back together a community torn apart by the epidemic. Her days as a mother, wife, and community organizer stretch [...]

  • High Cost of Living Hinders Kenya’s Effort at Poverty Reduction

    Posted: November 27, 2008, 5:50 pm by Phil
    Nairobi, Kenya - Efforts by the Kenya government to halve extreme poverty by 2015 as envisaged in the Millennium Development Goals may not be achieved, owing to high poverty level and rising unemployment rates. The Minister for Planning and Vision 2030, Wycliffe Oparanya, sounded optimistic but noted that key challenges stand in the way of the [...]

  • Lake Victoria Islands: Kenyan Anger as Uganda Nets Island

    Posted: November 27, 2008, 5:50 pm by Phil
    Recently published on this weblog:Lake Victoria Potential Source of Regional Conflict By Muliro Telewa BBC News, Kisumu Boats approaching the tiny Migingo Islands on Lake Victoria are greeted by the surprising sight of a Ugandan flag flying high above a collection of shiny tin shacks. The three islands are located about two hours by motorboat [...]

  • Countdown to World AIDS Day 2008:LEAD-EMPOWER-DELIVER

    Posted: November 25, 2008, 6:27 pm by Phil
    World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, with an estimated 33.2 million people living with HIV, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access [...]

  • Kenya’s Experience Informs New Resource for Increasing Coordination on AIDS

    Posted: November 25, 2008, 6:26 pm by Phil
    HIV prevalence in Kenya has halved in a decade – a dramatic and sustained decline rarely seen elsewhere in Africa. The Government aims to continue this level of progress by ensuring that the national response to the epidemic is as coordinated and collaborative as possible, and that funding is spent effectively. In recent years, as national [...]

  • Lake Victoria Potential Source of Regional Conflict

    Posted: November 23, 2008, 10:31 pm by Phil
    The so-called ‘scramble for fish’ in Lake Victoria is turning out to be a source of conflict between nations bordering the lake and could potentially threaten regional stability. In the past month alone there have been several incidents around the lake that have heightened tensions between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. It is now apparent that [...]

  • Kenya: Growing Money on Trees?

    Posted: November 23, 2008, 10:30 pm by Phil
    News on Kenya’s forests were recently dominated by the eviction of squatters from the Mau forest. This may change as the country moves towards sustainable forestry. Jenny Curtain analyses the investment potential created by changes in Kenya’s forestry management and developments in the international carbon credit markets. Changes in Kenya’s Forest Management Kenya’s stunning landscapes make [...]

  • UNEP Welcomes Obama’s Speech on Climate Change

    Posted: November 21, 2008, 1:54 pm by Phil
    Nairobi/Kenya, 20 November 2008  - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s latest speech on climate change has been welcomed as “very meaningful” by Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In a video message to an international conference on climate change hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on 18 November, Mr. Obama [...]

  • Balancing Environmental Protection and the Community’s Socio-Economic Needs

    Posted: November 21, 2008, 1:53 pm by Phil
    During a discussion with environmental law enforcement agency officials in Khartoum and Juba, Sudan, recently, the head of the department dealing with national cooperation on forestry raised an important question about balancing environmental protective objectives and human needs. The official pointed out that in Sudan about 70 percent of the country’s energy requirements comes from [...]

  • Dandora Dumpsite Poses Serious Threat to Public Health and Environment

    Posted: November 12, 2008, 9:54 pm by Phil
    Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN The Dandora municipal waste site in Nairobi continues to pose environmental and health risks NAIROBI, 11 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Dandora municipal waste site east of Nairobi continues to pose environmental and health risks even after a study recommended its closure, said specialists. “The dumpsite is a big, big health problem and [...]

  • First Ever Malaria Vaccine Finally Ready for Trial

    Posted: November 12, 2008, 9:49 pm by Phil
    After hundreds of millions of dollars and years of work, the first malaria vaccine is ready to test. Sixteen thousand children are set to be vaccinated in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania — African countries where malaria is a serious problem. Preliminary tests have shown that this particular vaccine — one of [...]

  • International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

    Posted: November 6, 2008, 1:32 pm by Phil
    Today is 6th November officially recognised by the United Nations each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. On 5 November 2001, the General Assembly declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed [...]

  • Profile : Catherine Mwango’s Success Story at KWAHO

    Posted: November 6, 2008, 1:28 pm by Phil
    Maji na Usafi Voices! newsletter had an incisive chat with Mrs. Catherine Mwango, executive director, Kenya Water and Health Organization (KWAHO). We bring you the rich excerpts of the far-reaching achievements of one of the founder members of KEWASNET. Q. What is KWAHO’s establishment and mandate? KWAHO is a national Non-governmental Organization(NGO) founded in 1976 [...]

  • Nomadic Schools for Garissa Mobile Girls

    Posted: November 2, 2008, 9:29 pm by Phil
    Five years after the introduction of free primary education (FPE) in Kenya, the enrolment of girls in schools continues to lag behind in Garissa, in Kenya’s North Eastern region. Most communities living in the North Eastern region are nomadic and semi-nomadic, and depend on livestock for their livelihood. “The nomadic life favours only boys to [...]

  • Hundreds Injured in Mandera Security Operation

    Posted: November 2, 2008, 9:28 pm by Phil
    Photo: Melvin Chibole/ActionAid Hundreds of people have been injured in an operation aimed at restoring calm in the mainly pastoralist northeastern region of Mandera ISIOLO, 31 October 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people have been injured in an operation aimed at restoring calm in the northeastern region of Mandera after a series of clan clashes [...]
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